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Inequalities in educational outcomes : how important is the family?

Bredtmann, Julia; Smith, Nina - 2016

In this paper, we investigate sibling correlations in educational outcomes, which serve as a broad measure of the importance of family and community background. Making use of rich longitudinal survey and register data for Denmark, our main aim is to identify the parental background...

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Linguistic diversity in the classroom, student achievement, and social integration

Bredtmann, Julia; Otten, Sebastian; Vonnahme, Christina - 2018

In this article, we analyze whether non-native speakers in the classroom affect the educational achievement and social integration of migrant and native students. In contrast to previous studies, which mainly examine the effect of the share of immigrant pupils, we focus on language heterogeneity...

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Immigration and status exchange in Australia and the United States

Choi, Kate H.; Tienda, Marta; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; … - 2011

The claim that marriage is a venue for status exchange of achieved traits, like education, and ascribed attributes … States among immigrants with lower levels of education and mixed nativity couples with foreign-born husbands. Partly because …

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Migrant youths' educational achievement : the role of institutions

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Sinning, Mathias; Stillman, Steven - 2011

We use 2009 Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) data to link institutional arrangements in OECD countries to the disparity in reading, math, and science test scores for migrant and native-born students. We find that achievement gaps are larger for those migrant youths who arrive...

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Do migrant-native achievement gaps narrow? : evidence over the school career

Vonnahme, Christina - 2021

cross-sectional data. In contrast, I use data from a national longitudinal education study to calculate achievement gaps in …

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The divergence of school track choices after Covid-19

Breidenbach, Philipp; Hörnig, Lukas; Schaffner, Sandra - 2023

During the pandemic, many measures were taken to prevent the spread of Covid-19. Some of these measures, such as school closures, directly affected students. Children from different backgrounds are likely to have different abilities to cope with the challenges of the pandemic and associated...

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Starting off on the right foot : language learning classes and the educational success of immigrant children

Höckel, Lisa Sofie; Schilling, Pia - 2022

This study is the first empirical analysis to identify the causal effect of a separate preparatory language learning class on the academic success of newly immigrated primary school-aged children in comparison to their direct integration into regular classrooms. Employing unique administrative...

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Fertility effects of college education : evidence from the German educational expansion

Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Westphal, Matthias - 2017

We estimate the effects of college education on female fertility - a so far understudied margin of education, which we … instrument by arguably exogenous variation induced through college expansions. While college education reduces the probability of … becoming a mother, college-educated mothers have slightly more children than mothers without a college education. Unfolding the …

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The effect of schooling age on fertility

Schaffner, Sandra; Siebert-Meyerhoff, Andrea - 2017

Fertility rates decline in most developed countries. This is especially true for Germany. Fertility is highly correlated with the skill level of women. The age at school enrolment and therefore the age at graduation depends on the month of birth. Children born before the cut-off date start...

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The long-term effect of age at school entry on competencies in adulthood

Görlitz, Katja; Penny, Merlin; Tamm, Marcus - 2019

The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger classmates on competency tests taken between kindergarten and Grade 10. This study analyzes whether these effects of school starting age continue into adulthood. Based on data on math...

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